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Frederick Douglass: “Upon his own head he invited all the bolts of slaveholding vengeance.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
Upon his own head he invited all the bolts of slaveholding vengeance.
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Frederick Douglass

Editor's note · Context

Douglass describes an individual who deliberately provoked the wrath of slaveholders, accepting the consequences.

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